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The Queer GazeUnicorns (2024)Here's a special spoiler-free bonus episode on James Krishna Floyd and Sally El Hosaini's Unicorns (2024), about an Essex bloke Luke (Ben Hardy) who falls for drag queen Aysha (Jason Patel).As a romantic drama, there's a lot to like here. But we found the film's refusal to unpack its characters decisions frustrating. Plus: C/W there's a really upsetting moment of violence that completely ruins the film's last act. If you want details, be sure to check out the spoiler-y 25 minute discussion on Patreon (patreon.com/thequeergaze) for more.Like the show? Rate, review and su...2025-07-2517 min
The Queer GazeMoonlight (2016)We're continuing our 'Family Drama' theme with a look at Barry Jenkins' Oscar winning film, Moonlight (2016) - a triptych dedicated to a specific queer, Black experience that is nonetheless undeniably universal.Like the show? Rate, review and subscribe to help others find usSupport the show on Patreon for bonus content on every episode, including 26 minutes more about this film!Follow the show on Insta and BlueSky: @thequeergaze. Email us: thequeergazeshow@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-07-2423 min
The Queer GazeC.R.A.Z.Y. (2005)We're continuing our 'Family Drama' theme with a look at Quebec director Jean-Marc Vallée's 70s-set coming of age/coming out film, C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005).It's a visually stunning film, filled with needle drops, and a fantastic lead performance by Marc-André Grondin.Plus: Tupperware witches, baptism transitions, the Quiet Revolution and more!Like the show? Rate, review and subscribe to help others find usSupport the show on Patreon for bonus content on every episode, including 21 minutes more about this film!Follow the show on Insta and Bl...2025-07-1028 min
The Queer GazeThe Birdcage (1996)We're kicking off a brand new theme on 'Family Drama' so what better (popular) text to begin with than Mike Nichols' 1996 film, The Birdcage?The American remake of a French farce feels like a product of its time, particularly how it handles queer issues (which ultimately makes it feel made for straight audiences).Plus: Lane and Williams' iconic lead performances, bland children, and draaaaaagLike the show? Rate, review and subscribe to help others find usSupport the show on Patreon for bonus content on every episode, including an additional 28 minutes...2025-06-2622 min
The Queer GazeY tu mamá también (2001)Conrad and Joe continue our themed exploration of 'Doomed, Sexy Experimentation' with a look at Alfonso Cuarón's scintillating Mexican road trip movie, Y tu mamá también (2001).It's an incredibly hot film, and though the sex and nudity is a major talking point, the film is about so much more!Plus: Joe's coming out in part thanks to Gael García Bernal, Conrad's knowledge of Andor, and praise for secret MVP Maribel Verdú.Like the show? Rate, review and subscribe to help others find usSupport the show on Patreon for b...2025-06-1224 min
The Queer GazeI Don't Understand You (2025)Here's a special spoiler-free bonus episode on David Joseph Craig and Brian Crano's dark comedy I Don't Understand You (2025), about a gay couple (Nick Kroll and Andrew Rannells) in Italy who find themselves in hot water following a series of miscommunications.Unfortunately this repetitive, often unfunny film didn't work for us. Listen to find out why and be sure to check out the spoiler-y, spicy 22-minute discussion on Patreon (patreon.com/thequeergaze) for more.Like the show? Rate, review and subscribe to help others find usFollow the show on Insta and BlueSky...2025-06-0611 min
The Queer GazeCall Me By Your Name (2017)We're kicking off a brand new themed pairing on 'Doomed, Sexy Experimentation' with a look at Luca Guadagnino's adaptation of Call Me By Your Name (2017).We're giving big props to the chemistry between the leads, tackling the film's controversies (Armie Hammer; the age gap), Timothée Chalamet's nuanced performance, and that cold winter ending.Seen the film or want to hear more details? Subscribe to our Patreon at patreon.com/TheQueerGaze for additional content, including our spoiler-heavy 33 minute discussion about the (peach!) sex scene and more!Like the show? Rate, review and subscribe t...2025-05-2925 min
The Queer GazeMonster (2023)Our second entry in 'Secret Adolescent Love' is 2023's Monster.Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda and written by Yuji Sakamoto, the film is a puzzle narrative in the form of a triptych that constantly asks audiences to re-evaluate their understanding of characters in order to answer the question: "who is the monster?"Plus: leading with empathy, fave quotes from school principal Fushimi, secret queerness, and debate about the film's ending.Seen the film or want to hear more details? Subscribe to our Patreon at patreon.com/TheQueerGaze for an additional 22.5 minutes of spoiler-heavy discussion.2025-05-1532 min
The Queer GazeClose (2022)Conrad and Joe kick off a new theme on 'Secret Adolescent Love' with a look at Lukas Dhont's Close (2022). C/W: Self-harm.Devastating is the word of the episode as we unpack this "not actually queer" story about the intimate, but ultimately disastrous friendship of Léo and Rémi. There's a reason this movie was Belgium's nominee for Best Foreign Language film at the Oscars, but fair warning...be prepared for plenty of tears.Seen the film or want to hear more details? Subscribe to our Patreon at patreon.com/TheQueerGaze for another 18 minutes of...2025-05-0124 min
The Queer GazeThe Visitor (2024)Conrad and Joe tackle their first (but not last!) Bruce LaBruce film, The Visitor (2024). C/W: this remake of 1968's Teorema is sexually explicit!This movie is deliberately provocative and confronting, as many of LaBruce's films are, which essentially means the film is not for everyone.Seen the film or want to hear more details? Subscribe to our Patreon at patreon.com/TheQueerGaze for another 27 minutes of spoiler-heavy discussion.Like the show? Rate, review and subscribe to help others find usFollow the show on Insta and BlueSky: @thequeergaze....2025-04-2515 min
The Queer GazeParis 05:59: Théo & HugoWe're continuing our 'One Night Stand' series with Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau's 2016 erotic drama, Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo.Comparisons to the Before trilogy are apt (albeit with a much more hardcore opening) as our protagonists embark on an all-night odyssey through the Paris streets.Plus: candid conversations and ties to Agnes Varda Seen the film or want to hear more details? Subscribe to our Patreon at patreon.com/TheQueerGaze for a spoiler-heavy discussion, including all the sex stuff!Like the show? Rate, review and subscribe to help others find usF...2025-04-1732 min
The Queer GazeA Nice Indian Boy (2024)Who's ready for a funny and heartfelt gay romantic comedy? Enjoy this special spoiler-free bonus episode on Roshan Sethi's A Nice Indian Boy (2024) starring Karan Soni and Jonathan Groff, which is out April 4, 2025.Seen the film or want to hear more details? Subscribe to our Patreon at patreon.com/TheQueerGaze another 25 minutes of spoiler-heavy discussion.Like the show? Rate, review and subscribe to help others find usFollow the show on Insta and BlueSky: @thequeergaze.Email us: thequeergazeshow@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...2025-04-0411 min
The Queer GazeWeekend (2011)We're talking about Andrew Haigh's breakout (sophomore) film, Weekend (2011) which follows isolated gay man Russell and his weekend paramour Glenn.Up for discussion: long takes and improv, sex lists and one night stands, using and subverting romantic comedy conventions, and...more trains?!Want to hear more? Subscribe to our Patreon for an additional 27 minute discussion about the way sex and intimacy is used in the film.Like the show? Rate, review and subscribe to help others find usFollow the show on Insta and BlueSky: @thequeergazeEmail us: thequeergazeshow@g...2025-04-0326 min
The Queer GazeMisericordia (2024)We're breaking down French gay director Alain Guiraudie's latest film, Misericordia (2024). In this spoiler-free review, we discuss the film's surprising resemblance to Tom at the Farm, Patricia Highsmith's novels, and maybe even a touch of French farce? Seen the film or want to hear more details? Subscribe to our Patreon for the full 37 minute conversation.Like the show? Rate, review and subscribe to help others find usFollow the show on Insta and BlueSky: @thequeergaze.Email us: thequeergazeshow@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See ac...2025-03-2111 min
The Queer GazeTom At The Farm (2013)We're wrapping up our discussions of Internalized Rural Homophobia with a contemporary Canadian classic from Xavier Dolan: Tom at the Farm (2013).This psychosexual thriller is all about doubles, performative gender, repression, and violence. We're pretty big fans!Like the show? Rate, review and subscribe to help others find usFollow the show on Insta and BlueSky: @thequeergaze.Email us: thequeergazeshow@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-03-2030 min
Hazel & Katniss & Harry & StarrBonus Track (2023) feat. Conrad ChambersBrenna and Joe are joined by Conrad Chambers, Joe's co-host from The Queer Gaze podcast, to discuss 2023 UK gay coming of age film Bonus Track.It's a little bit slight, albeit full of charming performances and nicely fills the gap left by Heartstopper and Sex Education.Plus: nepo babies, a Josh O'Connor cameo, and confusion about the period setting.Wanna connect with the show? Follow us on Instagram and BlueSky @HKHSPod or use the hashtag #HKHSPod:> Brenna: @brennacgray> Joe: @bstolemyremote (Instagram) or @joelipsett (BlueSky)> Conrad: @thequeergaze2025-03-1134 min
The Queer GazeGod's Own Country (2017)Conrad and Joe are back on the "Popular" side of our Internalized Rural Homophobia theme with a look at writer/director Francis Lee's God's Own Country (2017).It's a film filled with beautiful sweaters, mud wrestling, and sad boys, which means we find it deeply romantic!Wanna hear more of our discussion? Sign up for our Patreon at patreon.com/thequeergaze for early access to Main Feed episodes, exclusive content, and other bonus episodes.Like the show? Rate, review and subscribe to help others find us Follow the show on Insta and Bl...2025-03-0629 min
The Queer GazeA Moment In The Reeds (2017)Conrad and Joe are hard at work on the summer cottage as we discuss Mikko Mäkelä's feature debut, A Moment In The Reeds (2017) - our "lesser known" title in this pairing of Internalized Rural Homophobia texts.Up for discussion: unfair comparisons to God's Own Country (2017), the film's abrupt ending, small scale intimacy, casting queer actors, and why Leevi's issues are shallow compared to Tariq.Wanna hear more of our discussion? Sign up for our Patreon at patreon.com/thequeergaze for early access to Main Feed episodes, exclusive content (like the Chilli Pepper award where...2025-02-2026 min
The Queer GazeBrokeback Mountain (2005)Conrad and Joe relaunch The Queer Gaze as a podcast with our first theme: Internalized Rural Homophobia.For our "Popular" pick, we're revisiting Ang Lee's 2005 adaptation of Brokeback Mountain, starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal.Up for discussion: aggressive make-outs, casting straight actors in gay roles, that iconic score, and the legacy of the film within queer cinema circles.Wanna hear more of our discussion? Sign up for our Patreon at patreon.com/thequeergaze for early access to Main Feed episodes, exclusive content (like the Chilli Pepper award where we talk about the...2025-02-0626 min
The Queer GazeExtremely Unique Dynamic (Patreon Clip)On Patreon, Conrad and Joe review the new Meta-Asian-Queer-Stoner-Coming-of-Age-Bromantic-Dramedy, Extremely Unique Dynamic (2024).Wanna hear the episode? Support The Queer Gaze on Patreon at patreon.com/thequeergaze for early access to Main Feed episodes, exclusive content, and bonus episodes like this!Be sure to rate, review and subscribe to the show. Follow us on Insta and BlueSky at @thequeergaze Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-01-2903 minThe Queer GazeThe Queer Gaze (Teaser)The Queer Gaze has rebranded itself as a podcast and Conrad and Joe are back! We're starting back Jan 30 on Patreon and Feb 6 with a look back at Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain (2005).Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/thequeergaze for 1 week early access, as well as special bonus content, including the infamous Chilli Pepper Award discussion (aka the sex stuff).Wanna connect with the show? Follow us on Instagram (@thequeergazeshow) or BlueSky (@thequeergaze)> Conrad: @theconrad (Insta) or @conrad-esq (Bluesky)> Joe: @bstolemyremote (Instagram) or @joelipsett (BlueSky)> YouTube: @thequeergaze2025-01-1901 min
Movie OublietteTIFF 2024 bonus episode 3: haunted housesIn our third and final bonus episode covering highlights from the Toronto International Film Festival, friend of the pod Joe Lipsett joins Conrad to review three haunted house movies from this year's programme: Steven Soderbergh's bold ghost P.O.V. mystery Presence, Karrie Crouse and Will Joines' dusty western Hold Your Breath, and Nick Toti and Rachel Kempf's rarely screened found footage chiller It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This. Conrad also reports on Mike Flanagan's latest Stephen King adaptation, the warm-hearted but oddly structured The Life of Chuck.Check out Joe Lipsett on Instagram and the Ho...2024-10-0441 min
Movie OublietteTIFF 2024 bonus episode 2: ghosts and monstersFor our second round-up reviews of horror films that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, special guest Joe Lipsett and I cover four more horror films. We start with two ghost stories: the frosty New Zealand drama Went Up the Hill, directed by Samuel Van Grinsven and starring Dacre Montgomery and Vicky Krieps; and the rambunctious Taiwanese horror comedy Dead Talents Society, directed by John Hsu and starring Gingle Wang. We also take a look at Scott Beck and Bryan Woods' psychological puzzle box thriller, Heretic, featuring a charmingly sinister Hugh Grant, as well as Joseph Kahn's monster-on-the-loose...2024-09-2738 min
Movie OublietteTIFF 2024 bonus episode 1: body horrorsConrad is joined by Joe Lipsett live and in-person at the Toronto International Film Festival to give early reviews of the horror, sci-fi and fantasy films that premiered at TIFF this year. In this first bonus episode, we're looking at the body horror films on the programme: including Coralie Fargeat's The Substance (winner of the People's Choice Award), Max Minghella's Shell, Marielle Heller's Nightbitch and Thibault Emin's debut Else.Follow Joe Lipsett on Instagram and the Horror Queers podcast. Follow us on Tiktok, Facebook, Instagram and maybe what's left of Twitter, if it's sti...2024-09-2032 min
Movie OublietteLong Weekend (with Joe Lipsett)Joe Lipsett of the Horror Queers podcast joins us for a Long Weekend (1978), where bickering couple Peter and Marcia venture out into the Australian wilderness for a camping trip they might not live to regret. Colin Eggleston's psychological thriller, written by Everett De Roche (of 'Patrick' and 'Razorback' fame), won prizes on the festival circuit and is fondly remembered by filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino, but it's been largely forgotten since. Does this Ozploitation revenge-of-nature horror deserve its day at the beach? Is it a quietly disturbing parable with a convincing air of growing existential dread, or is it a for...2024-08-131h 05Movie OublietteThe Puppet Masters (with Joe Lipsett)Film critic and Horror Queers co-host Joe Lipsett joins us to explore the body snatching invasion thriller The Puppet Masters (1994), an adaptation of Robert A. Heinlein's 1951 sci-fi novel starring Donald Sutherland, Eric Thal, Julie Warner, Keith David, Will Patton and Yaphet Kotto. Astonishing practical effects abound as parasitic manta rays from space leap merrily onto the backs of unsuspecting cast members, turning them into mindless drones bent on world domination. Their only giveaway? They have no interest whatsoever in Julie Warner's cleavage. Seriously, this is a plot point. It's gleeful straight-to-video fun from the height of the X-Files era...2023-06-131h 12Movie OublietteStrange Days (with Joe Lipsett)Joe Lipsett, film critic and co-host of Horror Queers, joins us on the eve of the millennium for some Strange Days (1995) with Ralph Fiennes, who saunters about in leather trousers, Juliette Lewis, who wears nothing most of the time, Tom Sizemore, who sports a very unfortunate wig, and Angela Bassett who... well, just kicks ass frankly. It's a cyberpunk Blow Out, with Fiennes' burned out ex-cop unwittingly getting hold of evidence of a politically significant murder that could destroy L.A. – if it weren't a burning hellscape already. Featuring the groundbreaking technology of recording human experiences directly from the cereb...2022-10-311h 08Movie OublietteA Perfect Murder (with Joe Lipsett)Bloody Disgusting's Joe Lispett joins us to share his love of 90s erotic thrillers and revisit one of the most-overlooked entries in the genre: A Perfect Murder (1998), Andrew Davis's remake of Hitchcock's Dial 'M' for Murder starring the obligatory Michael Douglas, the permanently gaslit Gwyneth Paltrow and steamy pre-Aragorn Viggo Mortensen. It's a twisty turny tale of sex, inheritances, Chernobyl-level stock market meltdowns and murder with a meat thermometer – but does it deserve to get away from the oubliette scot-free or should it be permanently lost along with Gwyneth's apartment key?Follow Joe Lipsett on Twitter, check out...2021-02-231h 03Movie OublietteThe Relic (with Horror Queers)Joe Lipsett and Trace Thurman of Horror Queers dig up The Relic (1997) and drag us on a wild museum tour with two of the most unlikeable characters in monster movie history: Penelope Ann Miller, who's so entitled she shrieks about job losses in the middle of the office when someone has the gall to apply for a research grant, and Tom Sizemore as the superstitious cop wearing a raincoat big enough for two. It has Stan Winton creature effects, early CGI, decapitations galore and Linda Hunt in full Edna Mode mode. But should it be restored and put back o...2020-05-261h 08